November 29, 2006 in Learn
Checking the cashflow
Today I checked our bank balance, updated our cash flow Excel sheet and had a financial meeting with Gill (my wife and the other Director of Carson Systems). Always being pessimistic One thing that I continually have to remind myself…
November 28, 2006 in Learn
Marketing web apps is time consuming
So we’ve finished Amigo … and now the fricken hard work has begun! I’ve decided to devote 25% of my time (one day a week) fully concentrating on Amigo. That may not sound like much to you, but when you’ve…
November 27, 2006 in Learn
Vox and WordPress.com not right for power bloggers
I got all excited about launching Carsonified because it was going to give me a good chance to try out Vox and WordPress.com (the hosted version, not the open source version we’re using here). WordPress.com and Vox both promise a…
November 22, 2006 in Learn
‘Communicating Design’ by Dan Brown
Documenting your web design project properly can score major points with colleagues, clients and management. Dan Brown’s latest book on the subject provides an in-depth guide to getting it right. Reviewed by Gareth Rushgrove.
November 22, 2006 in Learn
'Communicating Design' by Dan Brown
Documenting your web design project properly can score major points with colleagues, clients and management. Dan Brown’s latest book on the subject provides an in-depth guide to getting it right. Reviewed by Gareth Rushgrove.
October 5, 2006 in Learn
Redefining Content Management
We live in a time where people have an amazing amount of power when it comes to publishing. Blogging, podcasts, vidcasts (or whatever you call ‘em) and more have been put into the hands of millions and it’s changing the…
September 19, 2006 in Learn
Why Standards Still Matter
Throughout my Web design and development career I have found incredible amounts of valuable help and fantastic resources while searching for solutions to various problems. In the last few years I have found most of this helpful information on Web…
August 31, 2006 in Learn
Turning Visitors into Users
Thousands of people may be visiting your site every day, but if you don’t convince them that they should be using your product, subscribing to your service, or registering in some way, then your web app’s homepage is simply not…
August 25, 2006 in Learn
Add Microformats Magic to your Site
Think back to when you first began using the web. It might be a couple of years, probably five, ten or even more. How did you use the web back then? More likely than not, you searched using Google, or…
August 13, 2006 in Learn
Dan Cederholm
Download the MP3 (5.17 MB) Questions and topics we cover in the interview What’s the story behind Cork’d? How did you manage to grow your user numbers? What’s better – working for yourself or working for clients? What are your…
August 9, 2006 in Learn
Show Me the Money… in Open Source
Web applications are a great example of using open source technologies and trying to gain profit through them. We all know the web app model. Solve a simple problem. Charge a monthly subscription. However, the pros and cons of the…
July 30, 2006 in Learn
‘Ruby for Rails’ by David Black
Tom Armitage from Infovore.org reviews a recent titled aimed at Ruby on Rails beginners